It is shown how software metrics and architectural patterns can be used for the management of software evolution. In the presented architecture-centric software evolutionmethod th...
Juha Gustafsson, Jukka Paakki, Lilli Nenonen, A. I...
The coordination language Paradigm allows for a flexible and orthogonal modeling of interprocess relationships at the architectural level. It is shown how dynamic system adaptation...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Software evolution is an inevitable process when developing a system of any notable size and is the most costly stage in the life cycle of a system. Automating parts of this proces...
Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a ...